"The Shooter," as he's called
throughout the lengthy Phil Bronstein piece, is exiting the
service after 16 years with plenty of scar tissue, and no
retirement pay.

From the piece:

What is much harder to understand is that a man with
hundreds of successful war missions, one of the most decorated
combat veterans of our age, who capped his career by terminating
bin Laden, has no landing pad in civilian life.

Nothing. No pension, no health care, and no protection for
himself or his family.

Now the medical bills are piling up, and the Shooter is without a
job.

If he had stayed in the service
another four years, then he would be eligible for a half-base-pay
pension. If he had stayed for another 14 years then he would be
eligible for full pay. Anyway it's hardly enough to survive on with a
family, unless the Shooter wore a few stars on his shoulders by
retirement.

A couple nuggets from the lengthy piece:

The writer watched "Zero Dark Thirty" with the Shooter. He had no
major complaints, but said the guy who breached the door would
never have yelled, merely tapped his helmet, tattoos were
different, helicopters turned the wrong way into the compound,
and overall the tactics "sucked".

Shooter said the female character Maya was "Awesome. They made
her a tough woman, which she is."

The piece concludes with Shooter's understanding that one final
line from the movie will define his remaining days. A CIA station
chief remarks on the dedicated vengeance of jihadists.
"Once you're on their list," he
says, "you never get off." Meaning the Shooter, and every other
servicemember who fought against insurgents well enough to earn
recognition, will never stop being a target for revenge.

Meanwhile he, like Matt
Bissonnette, may suffer the consequences of talking about a Top
Secret mission, as the Navy could level charges on him for
conducting an unsanctioned interview.

The Shooter and Bissonnette are
so far the only two members of SEAL Team 6 to divulge elements of
the raid to the press. Both prior servicemembers risk prosecution
from the U.S. government for divulging classified information,
and risking jihadists tracking down their locations to exact
revenge for the historical mission that took out al Qaeda's most
famous leader.

Needless to say, the piece illuminates the man behind the scope
in the single greatest military raid in history, and
we encourage everyone
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